Scores feared dead in Arepo pipeline explosion

A pipeline network located in Arepo, a community in Ogun State, south-west Nigeria has been engulfed by fire.
The number of dead and (or) injured victims in the mishap is yet to be declared.

On the contrary, residents in the community, who witnessed the misfortune revealed in an interview that about scores lost their lives to the inferno.

They expressed worries that it was not the first time vandals had carried out criminal activities around the pipeline network.

They added that matters may be worse as the private security outfit saddled with protecting the pipelines had been withdrawn.

After the fire incident, the supply of petroleum product through the pipeline network in Arepo was shut down.

Government authorities said the suspension of supply was to suffocate the fire which consumed the pipeline, owing to the activities of suspected vandals.

The supplies will resume as soon as the damaged line is fixed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

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